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At a recent party celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Lamborghini, the company invited two automotive journalists collaborating on a book about the brand to dispel some common myths. Any company around long enough will begin to accumulate its own folklore. Over the years, these myths get repeated and exaggerated until no one knows what’s true anymore. Here are five myths and facts about Lamborghini you might not know or might have wrong.

1. The argument between Enzo Ferrari and Ferruccio Lamborghini that caused the latter to go out and start his own car company probably never happened. In fact, there’s no proof that the two ever met. So where did the story come from? It’s believed that Lamborghini himself may have made it up, as he was reputed to be a bit of a showman in the P.T. Barnum mold and it made for a good story that put his brand at eye level with Ferrari. The part about Ferraris using clutches made by Lamborghini’s tractor company, though, is true.

2. Former head of design for Chrysler and Motor Trend Car of the Year guest judge Tom Gale actually penned the Diablo. Chrysler owned Lamborghini at the time and wasn’t sold on Countach designer Marcello Gandini’s design for its replacement, so Gale was given the task of improving it. Hoping to maintain Lamborghini’s exclusive image, Chrysler never took credit for the design.

3.The Gallardo, the most successful Lamborghini of all time, was in the works for more than a decade before it actually came out. Chrysler had plans to do a “baby Diablo” when it owned the company but financial troubles kept it from happening. Chrysler ended up selling Lamborghini to an Indonesian company.

4. Lamborghini was originally interested in the twin-turbo 2.7-liter V-6 being developed for the first Audi RS 4 as the Gallardo’s powerplant before coming to an agreement on the V-10. This all happened before Audi had even considered purchasing Lamborghini and years before the Gallardo would actually debut.

5. When the Indonesians decided to sell Lamborghini, Franz-Josef Paefgen, CEO of Audi at the time, went to his boss, Ferdinand Piech, to ask permission to buy it. Piech told him “you’ll have to do it without me because my family will be mad.” It wasn’t an explicit yes or no, but it didn’t matter. Audi purchased Lamborghini in 1998.

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